Donna Milgram, Executive Director of IWITTS
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One program saw more than half of its female students dropping out of computer networking. Learn how they turned around those res ults so now more than 90% of female students complete their classes. AND more female students are signing up -- female enrollment has risen from 19% to 35%.

Do you want to see more women in your technology classes, but you don't know where to start? Are you short on time, low on budget, but want results next semester? This webinar will get you started with proven, research-based strategies you can implement right away.

You will learn:

• The #1 secret to increasing the number of women in your classes
  
  
• The top three recruitment strategies -- according to the women themselves
  
  
• Why changing your thinking isn't enough, and what you can do about it
  
  
• The critical thing women want to hear up front that will keep them engaged throughout your course
  
  
• 3 simple techniques you can implement tomorrow so your female students will excel in the lab

Here's what past training participants are saying about the WomenTech training:

• “I have been very successful with recruiting more girls for my after school programs. Thanks for providing the class at ITEA in New Mexico; I really got a lot out of it.”
  ~ John Singer, Technology Education, Hanby Middle School, Wilmington, DE
  
  

• “The best part of this WomenTech training was the abundance of solutions and recommendations to address the problems we face in the classroom and the workplace.”
  ~ Charnell B. Slaughter, Outreach Coordinator, Puget Sound Center for Teaching and Learning Technology, Bothell, Washington
  
  

• “Donna, with great eloquence and intelligence, taught us workable strategies to overcome the obstacles that stand in the way of women's progress in high skill, high wage careers.”
  ~ Claire Rubach, Academic Counselor, Cabrillo College, Aptos, CA
  
  

• "This workshop really answered my questions on how to interest women in IT careers, and also how to retain them. I feel I have a bag of tricks to take back home."
  ~ Toni Black, Assistant Professor, University of New Mexico

Just enter your information in the boxes above, and you'll receive all of these proven recruitment and retention strategies.

Join me, and you'll learn how to see more female faces in your technology classrooms, starting next semester.

I'll see you there!

Donna   

About Donna Milgram: Donna Milgram, the Executive Director of the National Institute for Women in Trades, Technology and Science (IWITTS), has conducted national and state trainings and workshops in 43 states. She is the Principal Investigator of the CalWomenTech Project, highlighted by the National Science Foundation in 2009 for boosting recruitment and retention rates of women in technology programs.

From the Trenches: One Educator’s Success Story of Increasing the Retention of Female Students in Her STEM Program

Thursday, November 1 2012, 2:30 pm ET/ 1:30pm CT/12:30 pm MT/ 11:30 am PT

Learn about one community college program in engineering technology in which the percentage of females retained went from zero percent in 2007 to 26% in 2012. Plus, more male students and minority students are receiving degrees and certificates as well!

In this webinar you will learn:

• What female students need to hear from faculty to keep them on track to graduate.
  
  
• The curriculum changes that will keep students engaged throughout the program.
  
  
• How the layout of your lab may help or hinder the retention of female students.

Presented by: Antigone Sharris, Full-time Faculty and Program Coordinator, Engineering Technology Program, Triton College

Hosted by: Donna Milgram, Executive Director of the Institute for Women in Trades, Technology & Science (IWITTS)

The CalWomenTech Scale Up Project is funded by the Advanced Technological Education Program and the Program for Research on Gender in Science and Engineering from The National Science Foundation - Grant no. 1102996

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Driving Directions

1150 Ballena Blvd., Suite 102, Alameda, CA 94501 (510) 749-0200

If you are coming from Oakland, take the Webster Street tube into Alameda. Continue on Webster Street until it dead ends at Central Avenue. Make a right on Central. Several blocks later, at the first traffic signal, make a left onto Ballena Boulevard. There is a large Ballena Bay sign at this intersection. On Ballena Boulevard, stay to the right as you follow the road. Keep going straight at the stop sign, after you cross a small bridge. When you see the office buildings on the left, turn in to the Ballena Isle Marina parking lot. Our office building is to the left of Pier 29 restaurant and Suite 102 is the first office to the left as you come in through the entrance by the mailboxes.

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Public Transportation Directions

1150 Ballena Blvd., Suite 102, Alameda, CA 94501 (510) 749-0200

Take BART to Oakland City Center/12th Street, located at 1245 Broadway, Oakland, CA 94602. For fare and schedule, click here.

Follow the 12th Street sign as you exit the station. Walk to the bus stop, which is located in front of the California Federal Bank Building. Board on AC 51A. The bus fare costs $2.00. After approximately 7 stops, get off the bus at Santa Clara/Webster Street. The bus ride is about 10 minutes. For a complete route and bus schedule, click here.

Walk down Webster Street in the direction of US Bank until the street dead ends a block later at Central Avenue. Make a right on Central. Several blocks later, at the first traffic signal, make a left onto Ballena Boulevard. There is a large Ballena Bay sign at this intersection. On Ballena Boulevard, stay to the right as you follow the road. Keep going straight at the stop sign, after you cross a small bridge. When you see the office buildings on the left, turn in to the Ballena Isle Marina parking lot. Our office building is to the left of Pier 29 restaurant and Suite 102 is the first office to the left as you come in through the entrance by the mailboxes. The walk should take approximately 20 minutes.

Boating Directions

1150 Ballena Blvd., Suite 102, Alameda, CA 94501 (510) 749-0200

IWITTS' convenient location by the Marina allows you to come by water. If you are coming by boat, our coordinates of Ballena Bay are Lat. 37 deg. 46min. N. by 122 deg. 17min. W. We are located on the Island of Alameda, in the state of California, USA. Ballena Bay is on the south side of the island near the old Naval Air Station. For more information click here.

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